text: Taube was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes."  He received his award on December 8, 1983, with the presentation speech being delivered by Ingvar  Lindqvist of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.  Taubes Nobel Lecture was entitled "Electron Transfer between Metal Complexes – Retrospective."  His Nobel Prize was the second awarded to a Canadian-born chemist (the first one was William Giauque).  His initial paper in Chemical Reviews' was 30 years old at the time of his Nobel Prize victory, but the correlation he described between the rate of ligand substitution and electronic configuration for transition metal coordination complexes was still the predominant theory about the reaction chemistry of these compounds.  After being awarded the Nobel Prize, Taube noticed a side benefit to the prestigious award – his students paid better attention in class.